Mattress



W. J. RIMMlN.GTON.'

MATTRESS.

APPLICATION man JULY 30,1920.

Patented June 27,1922.

UNITED stares rarest OFFICE- WALTER J. RIMMINGTON, OF WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA.

MATTRESS.

Application filed July 30,

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, IVALTER J. RiMMrNe- TON, of the city of Winnipeg, in the Province of Manitoba, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mattresses, of which the following isthe specification.

The invention relates to improvements in mattresses and the object of the invention is to provide a mattress having a curtain or valance attached to the sides and ends of the mattress which will hang down when the mattress is in use on the bed and cover the springsand which is arranged so that it can hang in either direction, thereby permitting of the mattress being turned on the bed.

With the above object in view the invention consists essentially in a mattress having a valance secured thereto at the sides and ends, the parts being arranged and constructed as hereinafter more particularly de scribed and later pointed out in the appended claim, reference being had to the accompanying drawing in which Fig. 1 is a side view of a bed with my mattress thereon and part of the valance torn away to expose the springs.

Fig. 2 is an end view of the mattress.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged detailed sectional View through one side of the mattress.

In the drawing like characters of reterence indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

'1 represents a mattress of ordinary form and to the mattress I secure at the sides and ends a valance or curtain 2 which passes completely around the mattress and nor mally hangs down. The depth of the valance is as wished being preferably deep enough to enclose the side and end bars of the bed and it is attached to the mattress by seaming the mattress centrally at the sides and ends and inserting the upper edge of the valance in the seam which is sewn.

This construction is best shown in Fig. 3

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 2*? 1922,

1920. Serial No.399,974.

4% and 5 of the mattress to which it is sewn.

Preferably the valance will be made. of reversible material, selected the same as the mattress. By this arrangement one can turn over the mattress on the bed and the valance will hang down at all times.

This mattress is particularly gotten out as a substitute for box springs which embody a mattress and enclosed springs formed together and which arrangement is such that it does not allow access to the springs nor of the turning of the mattress.

IVhere my mattress is used one will employ any of the well known types of coil or elevated bed springs indicated at 6 which are entirely independent of the mattress and will then place the mattress on the springs and the springs will be entirely hidden from view by the valance. Obviously these open springs are much more sanitary than the boxed in type and the mattress can be turned at any time desired.

Further, the general appearance of my mattress which has the valance enclosing the separatesprings is just as good as the box spring type of mattress but it has the additional features of having the mattress independent and the springs non-incased.

lVhat I claim as my invention is A. mattress having vertical side and end walls, a valance secured to the mattress at the sides and ends intermediate of their depth and parallel with the bottom and top edges of the mattress, said valance being adapted tolie close to the'vertical side and ends of the mattress and being of such depth as to extend an appreciable distance below the same.

Signed at Winnipeg, this 28th day of June, 1920.

WALTER J. RIMMINGTON.

In the presence of- VV. C. Boeeiss, K. B. WAKEFIELD. 

